Word Finder - chirping

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To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets

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To speak in a high-pitched staccato

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(radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.

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To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.

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(gerund of chirp) An instance of chirping

Tree frogs were chirping so abundantly that they sounded like crickets.

The night was quiet, no insects chirping, no water gurgling.

A steady chirping and whistling came from the forest.

Birds flitted from tree to tree, chirping at each other and battling over the best roosting sights.

I could hear birds chirping and earlier, the woman humming.

Also includes nature sounds, such as birds chirping.

Haydn uses a true Straussian discord in The Seasons, in order to imitate the chirping of a cricket; but the harshest realism in Gatterdammerung (the discord produced by the horns of Hagen and his churls in the mustering-scene in the second act) has a harmonic logic which would have convinced Corelli.

Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds was silenced at once.

Whether it's a bird chirping or a train rushing by, these realistic sound effects are readily available for download on the Internet.

Senior serenade - A single cricket can drive you to madness with its chirping.

She looked deep into him and they made love, the birds still chirping and the ground still damp.

The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne's, and Katie's, who was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping of birds.

Not only can they growl and yowl as most cats do, Bengals also make a sort of chirping noise, and they use all of these sounds to try to communicate their wants and needs to their humans.

You can listen to birds chirping and see small animals in their natural habitat, things you won't experience while sitting at an office desk twenty stories up.

The atmospheric birds chirping on the castle grounds sounds as good as ever, and the music is the usual toe-tapping Mario fare.

Simple vocal tics include grunting, clucking, sniffing, chirping, or throat-clearing noises.

Switch out the Windows startup sound with a chirping bird or a flowing river!

Males of the little water-bugs of the genus Corixa make a shrill chirping note by drawing a row of teeth on the flattened fore-foot across a group of spines on the haunch of the opposite leg.

When spring approaches, the birds begin chirping, the flowers start blooming and the weather becomes warmer.

Many beetles make a hissing or chirping sound by rubbing a "scraper," formed by a sharp edge or prominence on some part of their exoskeleton, over a "file" formed by a number of fine ridges situate on an adjacent region.